I was thinking about going vegetarian for a while and last week was the first "meatless" week for me. It's easy for me, since I'm not a big meat eater anyway. I still drink milk and eat milk products - no eggs though!

I need some help with our "dinner plan" now. My family still eats meat and I don't think I should force my diet choice on them. Please, I need some meal ideas that are easy and fast and I can substiture meat or at least leave meat out in a small serving for myself. I already use boca products, but like more info on how to cook with Tofu - my cooking experiments didn't turn out as great as I hoped - luckily still eatable! Also, things have to be easy. I work full time and have three kids (hungry kids)

Though, I found some good web sites, many of the vegan/vegetaraian pages out there are somewhat militant. I'm not going to join PETA or so. I just don't want to eat meat anymore (and maybe sneak some veggy meals into our family dinners)

Ah. Veggie isn't hard at all. Lots of meat replacing products out there, plus you can make your own. Basically, anything with meat in it, you can replace with these things. Try Veggie Ground fom Yves, their veggie dogs, etc etc etc. Yves is a great brand. Expensive, but they taste awesome. Most can't tell any difference at all, even eating their food straight.

Actually, I started out with Asian recepies but (as much as I like asian food) it gets boring if you eat it too often.

I'm not sure if I'll ever go completely vegan, maybe. For now, we take it step by step. My husband liked the tofu in the noodle sauce. When he first saw it, he thought it was chicken. My kids love it - where we live the word "vegetarian" still has a high shock value!
My husband and kids are supportive of me being a "carrot biter" as long as they can have meat like twice a week.

vegweb seems a pretty good side, good recepies - let's get some dinner ideas! I'm not sure if we have Ives products, not in the store I shop in.